I surrender!
Originally uploaded by varf.

We seem to do this more often than I'd like, but we're migrating servers again.

We've upgraded ourselves to a dedicated box as smrty, we put up lights and Rick site were starting to suffer on the shared hosting we had.

Would like to make a move to the engineyard, but we're not there yet ($wise$) where we can let someone else handle the headaches of running and more importantly scaling our server setup.

Oh well, as long as we don't get dug for a few more weeks, we should be fine.

Anywho... If you're trying to get into smrty right now, the only thing you'll find is a page that says "it works"... Which is ironic programmer humor I'm guessing, since really it doesn't work...

I digress.... Should be up by this afternoon, I trust that you'll excuse the necessary down time.

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On a completely unrelated note... I just want to give the boys at SHOPIFY.COM a big shout out for a very easy to use, simple yet powerful shopping site. Anyone (including non coder me) can have a site up in an afternoon. As an example, I put up stuckers.com (new venture with my good buddy and vinyl sign guru Gord) in about 4 hours, including finding and registering what I think is a killer name.

Anyway.... If you need to do some ecommerce and want a painless way to set up a ready to go shop... I'd definitely give them a look... Great model too, costs NOTHING to set up and they take a very reasonable 3% off the top of your sales... I think that's a great model, let people see if there is a market for their product before committing to big development / integration costs.